Practical Law Public Sector addresses the questions that schools may ask local authorities regarding day-to-day school management and sets out the legal issues to consider when responding:
This FAQ looks at the procedures for exclusion decisions. For details of all our school hotline queries, please see Practice note, Schools hotline FAQs.
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Geoffrey Payne, barrister, 25 Bedford Row:
The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) deals with the making and enforcement of confiscation orders. It is draconian. It requires information to be provided by the defendant, it imposes an evidential burden upon them and it provides for a range of far-reaching assumptions as to the provenance of their property to be made against them. As if those hurdles were not difficult enough for proceeds of crime lawyers, the situation is made more difficult if the defendant has absconded.
In this post, Geoffrey Payne looks at a recent case involving an absconding defendant in a case concerning a confiscation order under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. Continue reading
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July 2014 saw public procurement making an appearance in the Supreme Court, which considered what a “reasonably well-informed and normally diligent” tenderer actually is. In a busy month, other issues considered by the courts included automatic suspension, development agreements and cross border interests.
Please feel free to submit a comment below or send us an Ask query if you have any views on the cases covered or think that we have missed a case that should be brought to the attention of public procurement practitioners.
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Practical Law Public Sector addresses the questions that schools may ask local authorities regarding day-to-day school management and sets out the legal issues to consider when responding:
This FAQ looks at schools’ obligations where one pupil is bullying another outside school. For details of all our school hotline queries, please see Practice note, Schools hotline FAQs.
This is the latest in our series of quarterly local government update blogs, which will enable readers to catch up on the most important cases, issues or developments in local government from May to July 2014. For those who are seeking the latest on education law, we will shortly be publishing a regular digest focusing solely on that topic.
Please feel free to submit a comment below or send us an Ask query if you have any views on the cases, issues, or legal developments covered or if you think we have missed something that should be brought to the attention of local government practitioners.
In this post we look at:
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Practical Law Public Sector recently attended a conference on homelessness jointly run by the Legal Action Group and Arden Chambers.
The conference consisted of a number sessions focusing on various aspects of the homelessness regime under the Housing Act 1996. Of particular interest was the keynote speech given by Andrew Arden QC, which focused on the wider policy context of homelessness and in particular recent trends and issues of general concern.
We have published an Article setting out the keynote speech in full, while this blog highlights some of the key points made in the speech. Continue reading